GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE March 22, 2002

Tickets:

The 9th Annual

Human Rights Campaign Cleveland Dinner & Dance

May 11, 2002

"Celebrate Equality:

Tomorrow's Vision Today"

At the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Grand Ballroom

Join over 1,000 of your friends, family, and colleagues on May 11th, to congratulate Congressman Sherrod Brown

$175 per person ($150 before April 1) Available by contacting Box Office Tickets www. boxofficetickets.com or call 800-494-8497. Membership is included with each ticket purchase. If you are interested in becoming a table captain please call our hotline

Sponsorship, Advertising & Auction Donations:

To inquire about corporate sponsorship, program book advertising, and/or auction donations, please call our hotline. Deadline for program book advertising is March 21.

Hotel Accommodations:

Limited block of available at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel at $79 per night. For reservations, call 1-216-696-5600, and note that you are part of the Human Rights Campaign Event.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

Reviews from previous dinners...

"...Elizabeth Birch's speech hit upon the importance of both local and national efforts to support HRC and it's work. It was refreshing to see how my donations makes a difference." Ana Maldonado, dinner attendee

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"What I really enjoyed was the feeling of safety and empowerment...

It was such a rush to see so many people organized together for the sake of human rights

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and equal rights."

Dave Haynik, Volunteer

The dance truly topped off an evening which celebrated our commitment, as a community,

to achieving equal rights."

Lisa Bohlander, Committee Member

As America's largest gay and lesbian organization, the Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay and lesbian issues. The Human Rights Campaign effectively lobbies Congress; mobilizes grassroots action in diverse communities; invests strategically to elect a fair-minded Congress; and increases public understanding through innovative education and communication strategies.

HRC is a bipartisan organization that works to advance equality based on sexual orientation and gender expression and identity, to ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.

www.hrc.org/events/cleveland.asp

HRC Hotline: (800) 790-2538

LGBT people have always been active participants in the ongoing struggle for civil rights.

This is no time to stop.

THE LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ACLU, PRESENTS:

Threats to Civil Liberties in Times of Military Conflict: Should You Be Paying Attention?

What is happening to our civil liberties since

the September 11 attacks?

To find out, attend this important forum and panel discussion.

Thursday, April 4 from 7-9 pm

At the Max Wohl Civil

Liberties Center

4506 Chester Ave (on the east bound side

of Chester, past East 40th Street)

Free and open to the public.

Call the Center at 216.651.5428

or the ACLU at 216.472.2220 for more information.

The Center

ACLU

evening'sout

Many Lammy nominees are also library finalists

by Anthony Glassman

Washington, D.C.-The finalists for the Lambda Literary Foundation's Lammy Awards have been announced, representing a wide range of writing by and about LGBT people.

The awards, which were first presented for books published in 1988, will be announced at a New York City gala on May 2.

Margaret Cho will receive a special Bridge Builders Award for her positive portrayals of gays in her stand-up comedy act. The event will be hosted by performance poet Emanuel Xavier.

Alyson Publications garnered 11 nominations in ten categories, followed by St. Martin's Press with four nominations and Alice Street Editions/ Haworth Press and Viking Press tying with three nominations each.

Two new categories, Erotica and Romance, bring the number to 20. These include gender-specific categories for fiction, poetry and mystery, as well as GLBT Studies, Spirituality, fiction and nonfiction anthologies, Humor and Transgender/ Bisexual, among others.

The books represented are even more diverse than the categories they fill, from Jewish Latina Achy Obejas' Days of Awe,

Library Association winners

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association announced their literature and non-fiction Book Award winners for 2002.

The finalists in Literature included J.T. LeRoy's The Heart is

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Things, also nominated for a Lammy, Guess Again by Bernard Cooper, Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, another Lammy nominee, and Welsh Boys Too by John Sam Jones.

The Literature award went to The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, a play about the aftermath of the Matthew Shepard murder in Laramie, Wyoming.

the rose city

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written.md illustrated by Todd Tuttic

nominated in Lesbian Fiction, and Sparrow L. Patterson's Synthetic Bi Products in Transgender/Bisexual, to David Ebershoff's The Rose City in Gay Male Fiction and Spot by Todd Tuttle, nominated in Children/Young Adult.

Also present are a number of veteran authors, including David Leavitt for The Marble Quilt, poet Justin Chin, Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man, Kirk Read and Allison Lurie.

The non-fiction award went to Barry Werth's The Scarlet Professor, which tells the story of Newton Arvin, a noted scholar of American literature, who was arrested, along with two other Smith College professors, following a crusade by the police and the postal service for possessing obscene material. Werth is also up for a Lammy. Other nominees included Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price's Court-

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ing Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court, nominated for a Lammy as well, How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read, another Lammy nominee, Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS edited by Edmund White, The Stranger Next Door by Arlene Smith and Louise A. Blum's You're Not From Around Here, Are You?

The awards, a plaque and monetary prize, will be presented to the winners at the American Library Association's annual conference. Founded in 1971, they are the oldest LGBT book awards in the country.

A week's rent

Rent is playing in Akron for one week, until March 24, at the E.J. Thomas Hall on the University of Akron campus.

An ensemble cast of accomplished actors and musicians bring the show to life. Bruce Wilson Jr. plays Tom Collins, the philosophy teacher who falls in love with transvestite Angel (Justin Rodriguez), while Sara Schatz portrays Maureen, the performance artist who left her boyfriend Mark for lesbian lawyer Joanne.

Modeled after the opera La Bohéme, Rent has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, four Tony Awards and a baker's dozen of other awards. The musical has enjoyed international success and a top-selling cast recording, and will play 2 pm matinees Saturday and Sunday, as well as 8 pm shows Friday and Saturday and a 7 pm show on Sunday.

E.J. Thomas Hall is located at 198 Hill Street on the University of Akron Campus. Tickets are available through the Thomas Hall ticket office, 330-972-7570, or online at http://www.ejthomashall.com.